Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] in [noun] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found that in France it was the practice to buy meat , fruit , vegetables and bread daily ( in the case of bread , at least twice daily ) oneself , rather than rely on deliveries once or twice a week . |
| 2 | While this is theoretically conceivable , every writer who has recently examined the problem has considered that in nature it must be a very rare event and certainly not a common factor in the evolution of animal traits . |
| 3 | In Technograph Printed Circuits Ltd. v Mills & Rockley ( Electronics ) Ltd. [ 1969 ] , a case involving a patent for a method of making printed circuits , Harman J. said : It was objected that in fact it was not until ten years after the invention was published that it was commercially adopted … and it was argued from this that it was not a case of filling a long felt want . |
| 4 | Erm of which there , of course is erm impeccable logic er you might think well there are n't any coal mines in Didcot , which of course there are n't , but Didcot is actually a railway junction as I mentioned and in fact it 's on the main line from the midlands erm and they can get coal in from the Midlands very easily er it 's on the main line er also from South Wales and they 're getting co getting coal from , from er South Wales in the days when they built Didcot power station they still had coal m m mines in South Wales , so this was an obvious place to locate a large coalfired power station . |
| 5 | The care or supervision of children , though not strictly speaking housework , is included because in practice it was impossible to make an adequate distinction between the two activities of housework and child-care . |
| 6 | Erm people tend to relate back er and think that in theory it 's a nice welfare thing , and it 's nice for the community , and they do sterling work , do n't get me wrong , because I think they are a vital part of a community but , how much of a deterrent they are er , we are , we are unable to measure . |
| 7 | Those who have been able to overlook its skimpy fur , which gives it a gangling , half-naked appearance , insist that in personality it is a sheer delight , retaining an almost kittenish playfulness even when adult . |
| 8 | Did you know that upgrades to the EW + WW office software mean that in future it will be possible to print three-dimensional graphics and stereoscopic photographs ? |
| 9 | The argument just offered may gain agreement in principle , but it could be said that in practice it is unworkable . |
| 10 | The boat 's on its side in the water and you 're nowhere to be seen but in fact it 's all quite straightforward , neither the boat nor you can sink and it 's simply a question of pulling the boat back upright again and carrying on sailing . |
| 11 | But what I will say — and it must be said because in Australia it has been put about that I sacked Middleton — Middleton , sadly , sacked himself . |
| 12 | So much of my time is spent designing or in meetings it 's all too easy to forget that this , ’ he gazed around him , ‘ is the purpose of it all . ’ |
| 13 | They were astonished to hear that in Britain it costs more than £3 to go to the cinema ( a Filipino obsession ) , when it costs only 3p in Dapitan , and to learn that teenage girls in Britain could go on a date with their boyfriends without a chaperone ; something disapproved of on Mindanao ) . |
| 14 | ‘ I always like to help The Thin Blue Line , ’ I smiled , not adding that in Brixton it was called The Thick , etc . |
| 15 | I tell him that a friend who is even now in the Karakoram had been told that in Pakistan it was advisable to double the suggested dose of tablets and then to boil the water for twenty minutes . |
| 16 | The Departments of Environment and Transport could have agreed that in principle it was better not to encourage more cars onto the roads by building better motorways . |
| 17 | It 's not to say that the positive news it does n't work if in fact it is of interest to people , and it strikes them as , as such , and there are all sorts of subterfuges incidentally ranging from using facts and statistics and which relate to people , to even actually using individual stories . |
| 18 | I ca n't remember whether in grade it was three you did was n't it ? |
| 19 | The French police said the number they had called did not exist but in fact it was a special number allocated to the DGSE . |
| 20 | ‘ We would hope that in consultation it would be tightened up , but the EC might prefer it in its general form , ’ she said . |
| 21 | It seems that in compensation it was agreed that Italy should build a hospital in Ethiopa . |
| 22 | ‘ We 've found that in Berlin it 's not polite to pick up the phone and offer a painting . |
| 23 | He also involved a religious foundation — the Charterhouse — in his scheme ( although it appears that in practice it played little part ) and wanted his Master to be a Scholar of Eton or of Winchester ( if such could be found ) and to be appointed on the recommendation of the Provosts of Eton College and of King 's College , Cambridge . |
| 24 | There is no time to experiment and in turbulence it is essential to know them . |
| 25 | and then I had to work with these people and I knew that that was the kind of way that they were operating and I had to teach them by the way I worked but in fact it was okay to admit that we do make mistakes . |
| 26 | As I would put it , not only is justice not seen to have been done but there is no way , in the absence of reasons from the board , in which it can be judged whether in fact it has been done . |
| 27 | He said the emphasis on staff training meant that in May it expected to gain the prestigious BS5750 award for the quality of care it provides . |
| 28 | At the beginning of this erm programme he admitted that we had an excellent education service in Oxfordshire , and he 's now , having taken no part in managing it for the last five years , he is now claiming that in fact it 's due to what happened before . |
| 29 | I agree that in hindsight it could have been clearer |
| 30 | The board also said that in future it would receive more information on ‘ public interest issues ’ affecting the BBC . |